Tourist Information Office:
Oficina Municipal de Turismo del Puerto de Mazarrón
Plaza Toneleros, s/n 30860 (Mazarrón)
Tfno.: 968 594 426 / Fax: 968 153 121
Opening hours.
Monday – Friday: 9am – 2pm & 5pm – 8.30
Saturday: 9.30am – 2mp & 5pm – 8.30pm
Sunday: 9.30 – 1.30pm
Email: turismo@mazarron.es
web: www.mazarron.es
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[fsn_row][fsn_column width="12"][fsn_text] Coming to the 18th Century, we arrive at times of war (the War of Spanish Succession), when, during the earliest years of the century Murcia was, once again, dangerous [...]
By the middle of the 16th Century moves for Mazarrón to gain its independence from Lorca were strongly afoot with the Marquises of Vélez and Villena and the Genoese who were directing the profitable alum trade, at the helm. […]
After the Romans, things appear to have dropped into a relatively quiet period – at least in terms of remains still to be seen – during the times of Visigoth and Byzantine settlers. […]
Mazarrón is a relatively small town comprising several distinct areas. There is the Port of Mazarrón, in past times concentrating on fishing, but more recently, a favoured seaside location for local people and visitors alike. […]
The Alhama/Totana to Mazarrón motorways bisect the new urbanization of Camposol a few kilometres before the Mazarrón turns. Nearby, two short walks, undertaken separately or together, show both the power of nature and man. That to the hot springs and back is perhaps around three kilometres in length and that to the La Pinilla road along the old railway track and back, a little more than eight kilometres. […]
Human activity in the Mazarrón area has a long history. It is said that Mazarrón has 180 archaeological sites dating from Stone Age times onwards, but it is much later – in the 4th millennium BC that things really start to become interesting with the very important remains of a Chalcolithic (Copper Age) settlement and burial in the Cabezo del Plomo south of Mazarrón, which are well worth visiting. […]
